Summary
A new SBRI East competition has been launched in the East of England to find ways to help support the growing numbers of people with long-term health conditions. It is looking to industry to bring new technologies to support the achievement of regional health priorities and increase the possibility of adoption in the NHS. This competition is open to all companies, including those not currently engaged in the health sector.
Have you got a technology or product idea that could help?
Increasingly, more people are living with long-term health conditions and quite apart from the personal issues this creates, it poses a significant challenge to the local health service. We are therefore looking to fund the development of ideas that could help alleviate this problem.
Your business may use technology that has previously had nothing to do with the healthcare sector, but could cross over into this area and help us to care effectively for people with long-term conditions.
The 2011 competition will focus on ideas that can be shown to make a difference to the care of people with long-term conditions. The areas that proposals should focus on are:
- Delivery of care closer to home
- The empowerment of people to take greater control and responsibility of their health and care
The new SBRI is led by the Technology Strategy Board and is a cross-government programme for the procurement of technology development projects including the demonstration and evaluation of new technologies.
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Background
All applications need to demonstrate that they will be contributing to carbon reduction. This could be through reduction in energy, travel, waste, water or building design. Innovations which reduce system inefficiency are very much welcomed.
Developments will be 100% funded and suppliers for each project will be selected by an open competition process and retain the IPR generated from the project, with certain rights of use retained by the NHS.
This competition will be run in only one phase. Several projects, of up to 6 months and £100k, will be funded to prove technical feasibility. While there will be no second phase of the competition successful projects will be invited to pitch their ideas to an invited audience of venture capitalists and angel investors towards the end of the 6 month projects to raise more finance.
Businesses will retain the intellectual property generated from the project, with certain rights of use retained by the NHS.
For further information on any of the above or to download an application form, click on the tabs to the left of this page.
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